Long-Qing Chen receives 2014 Materials Theory Award
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Long-Qing Chen receives 2014 Materials Theory Award
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he Materials Research Society (MRS) has named Long-Qing Chen of The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) as the recipient for the 2014 Materials Theory Award for “his pioneering work in the development of the phase-field method and its applications in the computational modeling of mesoscale structures and their dynamics in inhomogeneous materials.” Chen will be recognized at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. The Materials Theory Award, endowed by Toh-Ming Lu and Gwo-Ching Wang, “recognizes exceptional advances made by materials theory to the understanding of the structure and behavior of materials.” With a multidisciplinary background in such fields as the phase transformation in metal and ceramic materials; the thermodynamics, kinetics, micromechanics, electro- and magnetostatics of materials; and applied mathematics as well as an
extended experience in computational modeling, Chen is able to address novel effects appearing in interdisciplinary areas where the most exciting advancements are expected. Chen is a pioneer in the area of computational modeling of the evolution of structurally inhomogeneous materials, where his group at Penn State developed corresponding phase-field models for the past 20 years. His work enabled the prediction of materials microstructures during processing, synthesis, or in service. His group has led the development and applications of phase-field models for domain evolution in nanoscale ferroelectrics and multiferroics, grain growth in polycrystalline systems, and precipitate microstructure evolution in elastically inhomogeneous systems, domain evolution in multiferroic composites and magneto-electric devices, simultaneous evolution of phase and defect
In permanently changing the field of thermoelectric materials research by shifting the paradigm from a bulk homogeneous materials problem to a nanoscience problem that requires nanoscale engineering, Kanatzidis opened paths for future advances that led to performance breakthroughs. By doubling the figure of merit (ZT), Kanatzidis’s thermoelectric materials enable devices to operate at 14% efficiency, up from 7% before these breakthroughs. Industrial development of these materials is now under way. These nanostructuring phenomena , as demonstrated by Kanatzidis and his group, have been validated by theoretical studies and have led to a
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis selected as MRS Medalist for nanostructured thermoelectric materials
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ercouri G. Kanatzidis, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University, has been named to receive the 2014 Materials
Research Society (MRS) Medal. He was cited for “the discovery and development of nanostructured thermoelectric materials.” Kanatzidis will be recognized at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. MRS BULLETIN
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VOLUME 39 • OCTOBER 2014
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www.mrs.org/bulletin
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